How to Run a Monthly Content Review (Without Dreading It)
A one-page review template that turns a month of content into three clear decisions — so the review becomes the most useful hour of your month, not the most dreaded.
A review that ends in decisions, not feelings
Most monthly content reviews are an hour of scrolling through analytics and saying 'that one did pretty well.' No decisions get made, nothing changes, and next month looks exactly like this one.
A useful review is short and ends with three things: what to stop doing, what to double down on, and the one experiment to run next month. That is it. Everything else is a distraction dressed up as diligence.
A review that doesn't change next month's plan is just a recap with regrets.
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Monthly Content Review Template (PDF — printable)
How to keep it to an hour
- 1.Pull the numbers before the meeting. Decisions made from memory are decisions made wrong.
- 2.Time-box each section. Five minutes per section, fifteen for decisions.
- 3.One experiment, not five. A month of one focused test beats a month of five half ones.
- 4.Write the decisions down. If it isn't written, it isn't a decision — it's a vibe.
→The review isn't about what happened. It's about what you'll do differently.
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